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Welcome to the personal website of Kris Coffield, a leading anti-human-trafficking and education activist, government relations specialist, and independent scholar living in Honolulu, Hawai’i.

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Kris Coffield is Executive Director of IMUAlliance, a nonpartisan political action group devoted to advancing educational opportunity, economic equality, and human rights. One of Hawai’i’s leading anti-human-trafficking activists and victim service providers, he also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of UNITE Hawai’i, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing sex trafficking through education. A dynamic and experienced Government Relations and Development Specialist, he works professionally as a government relations specialist for the Hawai’i State Teachers Association. Through his work with IMUAlliance and HSTA, he has successfully partnered with Hawai’i lawmakers to enact some of the most significant policy changes of the last decade.

Coffield is also editor of Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Eventshas recently been published in World History Connected, Ishaan Literary Review, Evental Aesthetics, and Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. He is currently completing his first book on object-oriented ontology and international security entitled Foreign Objects, as well as a collection of academic interviews called Fine Points.

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Buried in Levi Bryant’s brilliant posts at Larval Subjects is this gem from a discussion of Whiteheadian flaws: It starts from the premise that everything is related, and thereby undermines the most interesting ontological insight and questions. That insight is the insight that how things are related is contingent (other assemblages are always possible). That question …

I just revisited the critically acclaimed film Crash (2004), in which racial tensions are unveiled as contingently operational. Racism animated in one location redounds throughout society as an eternal recurrence, prompting one act of violence after another. In the scene above, Jean Cabot, wife of local district attorney Rick Cabot, shouts derogatory racial stereotypes about Hispanic locksmith Daniel Ruiz, …

Timothy Morton’s ecological theory is meshy. Literally, actually. For Morton, mesh explains the interconnectedness of all living and non-living beings. infinite both in number of connections and scale of differentiation. He states: The ecological thought does, indeed, consist in the ramifications of the truly wonderful fact of the mesh. All life forms are the mesh, …